Re: 1997 Kona Explosif Frame - Lost in post with My Hermes.
Hey that's dog crap buddy.
On a positive note, if there can be one, I ordered frames, wheels and parts from various online auctions/sellers in October and November 2018, to build bikes up for family Christmas pressies.
By February 2019, I had a total of 32 Parcels undelivered, all those that went out by Hermes. All eventually showed as lost on their tracking when contacted, via every frustrating method. In mid January, I had started just walking in to the local depot's delivery bay, every time I was in the area. I prised the direct dial telephone number out of someone eventually and bombarded them with calls every day, that I wasn't handy just to walk in.
In March 2019, I had a delivery of 31 Parcels, one box of inner tubes was missing.
They sometimes go through delivery agents, like I do Jaffa cakes and the regular small packet couriers, won't take bike boxes. So it may still turn up, when the person it has been fielded out to, eventually has enough on the van, to make the £1 a parcel he/she gets for it, diesel worthy.
When I lived in Edinburgh, the local courier doing their parcels, used to rip every one open, just enough to see what was in there. Without fail, every single parcel was ripped to see it's contents!
All the best.
M